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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Aug 09, Karsten Behrmann [BearPerson AT gmx.net] wrote:
> > Hi all!
> > Just wanted to use this thread to get a general opinion on what should be
> > in the ISO /etc/passwd and /etc/group. We have a minimum at [0], but static
> > /dev or udev already wants a few groups not in there. However, I'd kindof
> > like to keep the lists minimal. Why would you want to have a MySQL user if you
> > never had it installed?
> >
> > This is the current contents of my p4 section:
> > ==passwd==
> > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> > bin:x:1:1::/dev/null:/bin/false
> > nobody:x:65534:65534::/dev/null:/bin/false
> > ==group==
> > root:x:0:
> > bin:x:1:
> > tty:x:10:
> > sys:x:11:
> > kmem:x:12:
> > ppp:x:13:
> > lp:x:14:
> > floppy:x:15:
> > disk:x:16:
> > audio:x:17:
> > users:x:100:
> > nogroup:x:65534:
> > ==EOF==
> > Comments?
>
> Like I mentioned in IRC a bit ago, I think we should add the wheel group to
> this list.  Right now we don't define wheel at all and that's kind of odd.
> Production systems with multiple administrators expect to use that group,
> for those boxes it's much more important than 'audio'.

You'll want to file a bug so that it's not forgotten (either against
shadow as you mention later in the thread or against the ISO).

- -sandalle

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